Rethinking Management: Perspectives And Impacts Of Cultural Turns And Beyond (management ? Culture ? Interpretation)

This book assembles multi-disciplinary contributions to delve deeper into ReThinking Management. The first part provides some foundational considerations and inspirations. Further chapters offer more specific links to the arts and creativity sectors as well as empirical research and case reflections. ReThinking Management pursues the main idea that management theory is not merely a sub-discipline of economics, but rather a cross-disciplinary and critical field of research and practice, with a decidedly cultural perspective. While questioning the status and practices of conventional management, the book opens up for new understandings, turns and perspectives. Contents ReThinking Management and Cultural Turns Culture and Creativity Applications and Activities Target Groups Researchers, lectures and students of social sciences, cultural studies and management studies Practitioners from different fields of business and management The Editors The editors are professors at Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. Wendelin Küpers is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies. Stephan Sonnenburg is Professor for Branding, Creativity and Performative Management. Martin Zierold is Professor for Arts Management and Cultural Studies This book assembles multi-disciplinary contributions to delve deeper into ReThinking Management. The first part provides some foundational considerations and inspirations. Further chapters offer more specific links to the arts and creativity sectors as well as empirical research and case reflections. ReThinking Management pursues the main idea that management theory is not merely a sub-discipline of economics, but rather a cross-disciplinary and critical field of research and practice, with a decidedly cultural perspective. While questioning the status and practices of conventional management, the book opens up for new understandings, turns and perspectives. Contents ReThinking Management and Cultural Turns Culture and Creativity Applications and Activities Target Groups Researchers, lectures and students of social sciences, cultural studies and management studies Practitioners from different fields of business and management The Editors The editors are professors at Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. Wendelin Küpers is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies. Stephan Sonnenburg is Professor for Branding, Creativity and Performative Management. Martin Zierold is Professor for Arts Management and Cultural Studies Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Front Matter....Pages 9-9 ReThinking Management....Pages 11-30 Cultural Turns: A Matter of Management?....Pages 31-55 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Management as ‘Purity Apostle’: A Cultural-Anthropological Approach....Pages 59-77 Uncertainty and Opportunity as Drivers for Re-Thinking Management: Future-oriented organizations by Going Beyond a Mechanistic Culture in Organizations....Pages 79-96 Cultural Projects in 2030: A Performative Approach....Pages 97-114 Transfer of Economic Concepts to Cultural Strategy – and Back?....Pages 115-129 Are Artists the Better Managers? Perspectives on a Participatory Understanding of Cultural Management....Pages 131-148 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 The (Ante-)Narrative of G/growth in Management Consulting as Liminal Sense-Making Strategy....Pages 151-170 Graceful Degradation and the Knowledge Worker....Pages 171-189 ReThinking Studying Marketing....Pages 191-204 Sustainability in the Media Industries: The Lack of Transparency and the “Sony Hack”....Pages 205-216 On Belonging and Being Professional: In Pursuit of an Ethics of Sharing in Project Teams....Pages 217-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-241